Best Songs of 2010: Altered Zones

Love those end of the year lists because you enjoy discovering things that you’ve missed?

We’re betting that this list of the Top 20 Songs of the Year as compiled by the staff of Altered Zones will surely take you down some of this year’s sonic paths less traveled.

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti’s “Round and Round”
Balam Acab’s “See Birds (Moon)”
Baby Jazz’s “Michael Jordan”
Blondes’ “You Mean So Much To Me”
Dead Gaze’s “Take Me Home Or I Die Alone”
Games’ “Planet Party”
Girl Unit’s “Wut”
Greatest Hits’ “Danse Pop”
Hotel Mexico: “Its Twinkle”
James Blake’s “CMYK”
Nice Face’s “I Want Your Damage”
oOoOO’s “NoSummr4U”
Pure Ecstasy’s “Voices”
Salem’s “King Night”
Teengirl Fantasy’s “Cheaters”
Teen Inc.’s “Fountains”
Tjutjuna’s “Mosquito Hawk”
Ty Segall’s “My Sunshine”
The Vacant Lots’ “Confusion”
WU LYF’s “Heavy Pop”

Got a Best of 2010 list that you’d like to contribute? Best concerts of the year? Best local music moments of the year? Best whatever? Please send it along to [email protected]

THE 2010 LIST OF LISTS:
Best Concerts of the Year: Fred Rudofsky
Best New Webcomics of the Year: Wired
Best Concerts of the Year: Nippertown’s Greg Haymes
Best Art Exhibitions of the Year: The Daily Gazette’s Karen Bjornland
Best Concerts of the Year: The Daily Gazette
Best Albums of the Year: Nippertown’s Matt Mac Haffie
Best Concerts of the Year That I Missed: Nippertown’s Greg Haymes
Best Local CDs of 2010: The Daily Gazette’s Brian McElhiney
Most Disappointing Concerts of 2010: Nippertown’s Greg Haymes

Best Albums of the Year: Justin Mikulka
Best Capital Region Theater of the Year: Nippertown’s Greg Haymes
Best Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists of the Year: Art:21
Best Albums of the Year: Spin Magazine
Most Disappointing Capital Region Concert Cancellations of the Year: Nippertown’s Greg Haymes
Best Television Commercials of the Year: TV Squad
Best Feature Films of the Year: Roger Ebert
Best Albums of the Year: Brian Patneaude
Best TV Character Deaths of the Year: Entertainment Weekly
Best Viral Videos of the Year: Videogum
Best Albums & Best Selling Albums of the Year: Billboard
Best Concerts of the Year: Nippertown’s J Hunter
Best Country Albums: The Boot
Best Albums of the Year: WEXT’s Chris Wienk
Best TV Music Moments of the Year: Treble
Best Book Covers of the Year: The L Magazine
Best Folk Albums of the Year: About.com Guide
Best Albums of the Year: We Are Not a Rock Band
Best Movies of the Year: Christian Science Monitor
Best Television Shows of the Year: Channel Surfing
Best Concerts of the Year: Nippertown’s Andrzej Pilarczyk
Best Music Videos of the Year: IFC
Best Books of the Year: The New York Times Book Review
Best Live Acts of the Year: Paste Magazine
Best Poetry Books of the Year: Dan Chiasson of The New Yorker
Best Albums of the Year: Andy Maroney
Best Movie Titles of the Year That Sounded Like Porn, But, Alas, Were Not Porn: Movieline
Best DVDs of the Year: Rolling Stone
Best Albums of the Year: NME
Best Fiction of the Year: Salon
Best Jazz Albums of the Year: A Blog Supreme
Best Albums of the Year: Tim Livingston
Best Albums of the Year: Filter Magazine
Best Albums of the Year: Mojo Magazine